warren@pluto.UUCP (07/19/87)
I just noticed a very long path that an article from New Jersey took to get to New York. Here it is pluto!bc-cis!phri!cmcl2!husc6!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!homxb!mtuxo NY NY NY NY MA CO IL IL IL NJ NJ It seems odd that the message goes thru Massachusetts, Colorado, and Illinois when last time I went to New Jersey, it was just across the Hudson. I'm not complaining, so please don't tell me about phone line costs, but if anyone is in a position to do something about this, I'm sure many of us would be most appreciative. I guess it would be nice if ATT machines sent their news to a backbone site somewhere in the NY area in addition to sending it to Chicago, or if ihnp4 sent it right to NY, or if there was an ATT backbone site in NJ that talked to NY. Of course, I've seen worse paths that didn't fit on two lines, just this one struck me as having an unusually high path-to-distance ratio. -- /|/~\~~\ The entire world Warren Burstein |__/__/_/ is a very narrow carrot. | But the farmer philabs!tg!pluto!warren / is not afraid at all. Why doesn't life come with subtitles?
warren@pluto.UUCP (07/23/87)
In article <410@pluto.UUCP>, warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein) writes: > I just noticed a very long path that an article from New Jersey took > to get to New York. Here it is... Several people along this path have pointed out to me that many of these links are NNTP and so are cheaper and faster than I thought. -- /|/~\~~\ The entire world Warren Burstein |__/__/_/ is a very narrow carrot. | But the farmer philabs!tg!pluto!warren / is not afraid at all. Why doesn't life come with subtitles?
woods@hao.UUCP (07/23/87)
>pluto!bc-cis!phri!cmcl2!husc6!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!homxb!mtuxo >NY NY NY NY MA CO IL IL IL NJ NJ >It seems odd that the message goes thru Massachusetts, Colorado, and >Illinois when last time I went to New Jersey, it was just across the >Hudson. The problem is security paranoia within AT&T. There is an AT&T facility (all the dr* sites) about 20 miles from here, but we have to send mail to Chicago to get to them, because they will not set up any links to non-AT&T sites. I suspect your site in NJ has the same restriction. The path from MA to CO to IL is all over Internet links and hence is a "free" cost path and is therefore preferred by the routing software. Apparently there are large parts of AT&T that can ONLY be reached through ihnp4, so it often doesn't matter where the site is physically located; to get mail to them, you have to find the "cheapest" path to Chicago. --Greg -- UUCP: {hplabs, seismo, nbires, noao}!hao!woods CSNET: woods@ncar.csnet ARPA: woods%ncar@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA INTERNET: woods@hao.ucar.edu